Zombies in corporate networks spotted pumping out spam.
Network security company
Support Intelligence
has found evidence of bot-infected zombies sending spam from within many of the leading corporations on the US
Fortune 1000
list.
Monitoring systems are said to have detected spam originating from within networks belonging to database giant
Oracle
, hardware and software behemoth
HP
and leading US electronics retail chain
Best Buy
, among many others. A blogger at
Support Intelligence
has
promised
’30 days of bots’, with a new major company revealed to be hosting spam zombies every day.
The first to be discussed in detail is manufacturing colossus
3M
, which was found to have a machine on its network
sending pump-and-dump image spam
. A detailed report on the findings of the survey can be found at
The Register
,
here
.
Posted on 30 March 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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